St. Patrick's Day

Sam the Leprechaun came and visited our class the night before St. Patrick's Day. He left us a note and some GOLD!

We enjoyed reading the note and getting the gold.

During math, we did math activities all about St. Patrick's Day. Below we are making a graph with Lucky Charms cereal. First we had to sort marshmallow pieces by shape. Then add them to our graph.

Then we had to color in our graphs.


Mrs. Hart had a group too. She had another graph all about St. Patrick's Day. We had to look at the picture to collect our data. Then make a graph to go with the data collected.

On Friday, our funky food activity was all about green. We thank all the families who sent in items for our activities. There are too many and I am afraid I will forget someone...so THANK YOU ALL!

We had green grapes, green cucumbers, green pickles, green apples, green broccoli, green jello, green pudding, green lettuce, green punch, green pears, and green ranch dip. YUM!

Emilee, Kason, Colton, Caitlynn, and Aiden are enjoying all the GREEN!

Abby, Jacob (with his new haircut), Nathaniel, and Andy

Taylor, Macy and Aubree

Mason, Cody, Martin, and Aubree

Reyne and Jose and Logan's shirt

We also had a cool science experiment but the camera battery went dead. Ask your Monkey about the worm experiment.

Exploring our World Through the 5 Senses

This week our social science topic was Exploring our World with our 5 senses. We started out breaking up into 4 groups. Each group had to figure out the mystery object. The group below had to guess the object by using their sense of hearing. The other groups had to use smell, taste, and touch. Then they all had to write and draw what they thought was the mystery object. Once we figured it out, then we went through how we figured it out...our 5 senses!

No peeking!

On another day, we used our sense of smell to figure out different smells. Aiden is smelling coconut, but everyone had to predict what it was first. We had several other smells too.

Macy is using her sense of touch to guess what is in the bag. We had about 10 objects in a bags to figure out. Now I have a confession! I forgot to take pictures during the week, so we had to recreate the first 3 pictures on Friday. I asked Macy to guess what was in the bag, and she laughed, cause there was NOTHING! Tricky Mrs. Martin!

For our funky food activity, we used our 5 senses to explore popcorn. We saw, smelled, touched, heard, and of course, tasted popcorn! YUM!

We made a TLC art apple core and wrote all about apples using our 5 senses!

As always, we had unbelievable writing! Yes, that is 3 pages of writing.

It is incredible the writing we are getting from our guys and we are so proud of them!

Dr. Seuss Day

You can't really tell by the mug shot below but we had a blast today reading these Dr. Seuss books. Each had a fun activity to go along with it! We spent the entire day talking about, reading about, and acting like Dr. Seuss! His birthday was March 2nd, but we were out for snow so we celebrated today.

We love Dr. Seuss.

First we read The Cat in the Hat. We made edible hats.
Logan, Macy, and Reyne

Aubree, Zack, Mason, Martin, Taylor, and Cody

Abby, Jacob, Braison, and Nathaniel

Emilee, Kason, Colton, Caitlynn, and Aiden
We also read The Cat and the Hat Comes Back and made cool Cat in the Hat hats. Check them out in the picture below.

We then went over to the Happy Hounds room. Mrs. Hood read Bartholomew and the Oobleck.
Then the fun began. We got to make our own oobleck and play, play, play!
It was messy but too much fun.

This is the coolest stuff ever!

Mrs. Lisa is helping us play.

If you squeeze it in your hands, it is solid. Open your hands, and it is then a liquid. AWESOME!

Gross! Look at my hands!

Wow! This is cool!

Next we read Green Eggs and Ham. We all got to crack an egg. Mix it up and add food coloring.

Next we had to scramble our eggs and ham. YUM!

Aubree's not sure if she wants to eat them! But she liked them!

We ate them next. We will make a classbook about whether we liked the green eggs and ham, Sam-I-Am! So you will have to wait and see if we liked them or not!

Then Mrs. Martin read us Horton Hatches an Egg. When we were finished, we had to come up with an unusual creature like the one that hatched out in the story. Then we shared our creatures with our tables and put them on an egg to take home.

They sure are working hard on their creatures.

Macy is putting a lot of thought into hers.
All in all, we had a fun filled day of Dr. Seuss! And by the way, their hands won't stay green for long...it wears off pretty quick!

After Snow Day!

Fairy Tales

We have been reading fairy tales. We read two different versions of the fairy tales and then see how they are the same or different.

This was one of our favorite books to read. We listened to Pam Tillis read the story of Goldilocks and the Three bears. It had music and sounds with it. It was really funny! Then Mrs. Martin read another version of the Three Bears. We had to compare and contrast the two books. We learned that to compare means how they are the same. Whereas, to contrast means how they are different. We made a Venn Diagram graphic organizer to help in comparing/contrasting the stories.

We really liked the Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig! We laughed at Mrs. Martin because she had a hard time saying Big Bad Pig. She kept saying Big Bad Wolf and we would laugh. She finally got it right towards the end. Silly Mrs. Martin!

Mrs. Smith read us these fairy tales.

We all loved Cinderella but Bubba the Cowboy Prince was waaaaay cool! We read it several times. At the end of our unit, we made a TLC art project of the Three Little Bears. We then wrote all about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Mason wrote: First they ate porridge. Then she broke the chair. Last, the bears scared her away.

Macy wrote: First Goldilocks came to the house. Then Goldilocks came to the house she ate all the porridge. She sit in the chair. It broke. Last, she sleeped in the bed and the bears scared her. Goldilocks go away.

Abby wrote: First the porridge was too hot. Then, Goldilocks went in the 3 little bears house and ate baby bears porridge. Last the bears came home.

Dental Health

We had an action packed week all about Dental Health.

Cody is having his picture taken for our class book. The sentence was:
Did my tooth come out? Yes, it did! Or No, it did not!

On Monday, we started our science experiment. We used hard boiled eggs to simulate teeth. The calcium on the egg is similar to the enamel on our teeth. The eggs were then immersed in coke and one of the eggs was immersed in vinegar (plaque). We had to wait until Friday to see what happened. Many predicted that the egg in the coke was going to turn brown. A whole week of not brushing...

Friday we were so excited to see if our predictions were right. The eggs sure were nasty and brown. Now we had to see if we could get them clean with toothpaste. Colton and Caitlynn were trying very hard to get their egg clean.

Jose and Nathaniel tried hard too. But the eggs just wouldn't get come clean. Man, what if we didn't brush our teeth? Would our teeth look like this? Eek!

The tooth in vinegar (plaque) was amazing to us. When we took it out, the calcium was gone. The egg was squishy to touch. We decided to make sure that we brush our teeth 2 times everyday to get the plaque off. We don't want our teeth to be squishy.

We made toothy grins. Here is Martin.

Nathaniel has a nice set of choppers! Thank you to Caitlynn's family for providing the Funky Food ingredients.